A fossil discovered near Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia, has offered researchers a detailed look into themelanosomes ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

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